115: We Empower! with Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg - Episode 115115: We Empower! with Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg - Episode 115
UK Health Radio Podcast
Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg talks with sustainability and finance expert Stella Dombrowsky about self-focused sustainability, discipline, health and money. Their conversation links sobriety, women’s financial confidence, AI and responsibility to the everyday choices that shape long-term wellbeing.
50:39•17 Oct 2026
Money, Discipline and Self-Care: Stella Dombrowsky on Sustainable Strength
Episode Overview
- Real sustainability starts with asking how you feel, what you need and how today’s actions affect your future health.
- Discipline can be reframed as self-love, such as choosing sleep or skipping alcohol so tomorrow feels better.
- Healthy ageing depends on daily decisions about food, alcohol, sleep and movement, not just medical care later in life.
- Women often carry inherited fear and shame around money, yet building financial confidence is key to security and wellbeing.
- Technology and AI need human rules and responsibility; without them, old biases and power imbalances easily get amplified.
“Sustainability is a lot starting with yourself. Like, how do you feel? What do you need?”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety, purpose and long-term health? This episode of *We Empower* brings together big-picture thinking about society with the very practical question of how you treat yourself today. Host Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg chats with capital markets and sustainability expert Stella Dombrowsky, who has spent over two decades inside international finance hubs like London, Frankfurt, Zurich and New York.
Stella now works where "money, transformation and society meet" and ties that directly to personal wellbeing, especially for women. Stella’s core message is simple and disarming: "Sustainability is a lot starting with yourself. Like, how do you feel? What do you need?" From there, the conversation ranges into health habits, long-term thinking and why discipline can be an act of self-love rather than punishment.
Saying no to another glass of wine or going to bed early is framed less as restriction and more as caring for your future self. You’ll hear Stella talk about ageing healthily instead of drifting into decades of illness, and how alcohol, poor sleep and unhealthy food quietly steal that future. There’s a candid section on mental health, shame and responsibility, including how guilt often gets pushed onto women.
Stella also shares how losing her mother at 15 forced her to see that life has an end, which shaped her focus on what truly matters between birth and death. Money and power show up too: from stock-market trading floors full of emotion to women’s fear of investing, and how old patterns and AI systems can reinforce bias if left unchecked. The tone stays warm, sometimes wry, and always grounded in day-to-day choices.
If you’re rethinking your relationship with alcohol, health, work or money, this conversation might nudge you to ask: what small, disciplined act of self-care could you choose today that future-you will thank you for?
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